Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual, Theocracy on Apr 30th, 2008
He’ll be preaching at a church in the Overbrook section of the city:
[Episcopal News Service] For the third consecutive year, the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright will serve as revivalist for the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 28 and 29.
Wright is former pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ […]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual, Theocracy on Apr 30th, 2008
It is horribly unfair that Obama will still be judged by his affiliation with Rev. Wright. It is also understandable that people will have questions about that affiliation. He did his best to lay the issue to rest yesterday, but God only knows how successful he was.
In a nation where many people still believe […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Theocracy on Apr 29th, 2008
Who needs enemies? Rev. Wright isn’t a stupid man, so I have to assume he wants to punish Obama. Oy.
UPDATE: The same person tried to invite Wright to speak before the National Press Club two years ago, was told he wasn’t newsworthy. Guess he is now!
Posted in Politics As Usual, Theocracy on Apr 20th, 2008
Via Natasha, this very interesting post by Sara Robinson at Orcinus. She examines the complex issues behind the recent high-profile arrests in the FLDS camp in Eldorado, Texas.
In choosing Eldorado, Jeffs may have, at long last, picked the wrong place to hide. Texas doesn’t harbor the ghosts of Mormon pioneers or FLDS martyrs. Any liberal […]
Posted in Theocracy on Apr 12th, 2008
And nobody told me.
Posted in Politics As Usual, Theocracy on Mar 10th, 2008
Interesting piece on the spiritual journeys of three former leaders of the religious right.
Posted in Politics As Usual, Theocracy, War Crimes on Mar 8th, 2008
Chris Floyd:
You really can’t make this stuff up: Tony Blair will now teach religion at Yale. So says the Guardian, and the great and good in New Haven confirm it: Blair to teach at Yale University.
Yale’s president, Professor Richard Levin, says the co-perpetrator of the war on aggression against Iraq, which has resulted in the […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Theocracy on Feb 20th, 2008
Yes, but who got to keep the Kleenex?
DALLAS – It’s probably safe to say that you have arrived as a politician when your audience applauds when you blow your nose.
Yes, just a day before a debate in Texas, Sen. Barack Obama has a head cold.
And about a half-hour into a speech here, the Illinois Democrat […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, Theocracy on Feb 18th, 2008
John McCain (who Michael Kinsley says is loved by liberals) brags about the fact that he put wingnut wacko Janice Rogers Brown on the D.C. Court of Appeals, and Joe Scarborough says one day she’ll be on the Supreme Court. (Guess who’s most likely to put her there?)
If you were thinking of not voting in […]
Posted in Full Frontal Feminism, Politics As Usual, Theocracy on Feb 17th, 2008
I suppose this means if I see a seriously wounded right-to-life extremist official in the street with no one else around, and my conscience tells me society would be better off without him, it’s perfectly okay for me not to call 911:
Pennsylvania: Sen. John Eichelberger (R) on Monday introduced a bill that would allow health […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Theocracy on Feb 17th, 2008
Economic forces in the Middle East driving religious extremism… gee, where have we heard that before?
Here in Egypt and across the Middle East, many young people are being forced to put off marriage, the gateway to independence, sexual activity and societal respect. Stymied by the government’s failure to provide adequate schooling and thwarted by an […]
Posted in The Body Electric, The Shadow Knows, Theocracy on Feb 16th, 2008
So, so sad. This poor kid. And this one.
Posted in Blind Justice, Theocracy on Feb 14th, 2008
Happy Valentine’s Day to Texas lovers:
A federal appeals court has overturned a statute outlawing sex toy sales in Texas, one of the last states - all in the South - to retain such a ban.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Texas law making it illegal to sell or promote obscene devices, […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Theocracy on Feb 12th, 2008
Even Hitchens is right occasionally. This is one of those times.
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Media, Terra Terra Terra!, Theocracy on Feb 12th, 2008
Link:
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested several people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked a deadly uproar in the Muslim world two years ago.
The arrests were made in pre-dawn raids in Aarhus, western Denmark, ”to prevent a terror-related murder,” […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Theocracy on Jan 28th, 2008
This so perfectly sums up these long years of BushCo. [H/t Dependable Renegade.]
Posted in The Shadow Knows, Theocracy on Jan 26th, 2008
Link [h/t Duncan]:
(CBS) A Utah retailer of family-friendly tapes and DVDs - Hollywood films with the “dirty parts” cut out of them - has been arrested for trading sex with two 14-year-old girls.
Orem police say Flix Club owner Daniel Dean Thompson, 31, and Issac Lifferth, 24, were booked into the Utah County jail on charges […]
Posted in Just Plain Crazy, Media, Paranoia Strikes Deep, Politics As Usual, The Regime, Theocracy on Jan 26th, 2008
Stands for Fucking Crazy Clowns, the people who apparently think you excrete through your gluteus maximus:
WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a $1.4 million fine against 52 ABC Television Network stations over a 2003 broadcast of cop drama NYPD Blue.
The fine is for a scene where a boy surprises a woman as she […]
Posted in Higher Ground, Theocracy on Jan 21st, 2008
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, Theocracy on Jan 19th, 2008
You should probably read about the Dominionist cult to which Huckabee belongs. God knows, the corporate media’s too lazy to tell you.
Posted in Theocracy on Jan 9th, 2008
You have to admit, that’s one catchy title.
UPDATE: Link fixed now. And by the way, my Tulsa readers may want to check this out.
Posted in Full Frontal Feminism, Theocracy on Jan 7th, 2008
I wonder why these men who are so traumatized by abortion continue to affiliate with a political party that, when it literally comes to putting money where their mouth is, consistently chooses tax cuts for the wealthy instead of housing, day care and health care for the poor - you know, those things that make […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Theocracy on Jan 4th, 2008
If he gets the nomination, it will be a very tight race.
Posted in The Shadow Knows, Theocracy on Jan 3rd, 2008
I remember the morning I had to explain to my traumatized kids why Rosie, our hamster, was eating the litter she just had. “When animals breed too young, they’re prone to eating them,” I said. (Which is true what it said in the hamster book I bought at the pet store.)
And as we know, it […]
Posted in Arts & Music, Theocracy on Dec 31st, 2007
For some reason, this made me think of you:
You are a Working Class Warrior, also known as a blue-collar Democrat. You believe that the little guy is getting screwed by conservative greed-mongers and corporate criminals, and you’re not going to take it anymore.
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